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Meredith Nudo 🤌🏻 @meredithnudo.blacksky.app · 7h

Houstonia let me write about how galas can be beneficial to large nonprofits with the budget. But what about smaller ones? What do they do to ensure they both fund their projects and make donors in lower tax brackets know that they, too, are appreciated?

www.houstoniamag.com/arts-and-cul...

These Art Orgs Can’t Afford Galas. They’re Fundraising Just Fine.

Big hearts with small budgets.

www.houstoniamag.com

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 20h

Well, wow! I’m not desperate for clicks; we give away what the labels offer us. I feel it’s a decent variety of music that someone would be happy to attend.

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

Just a little note for the pm crowd. Every morning this month, I am posting one of our animals dressed for Halloween. Most are worth looking for.

Collage of six animals wearing Halloween costumes. A goat as a butterfly, a goat as a banana, a tortoise as a cheesehead, a goat as Medusa, a goat as the devil, and a dog as a cowboy

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Same to you, my friend

Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 1d

I have an absurd amount of free concert giveaways happening on Instagram. (Yes, I know y'all hate it) NXWorries Thursday, 10/9/25 at HOB Houston, Kublai Khan Saturday, 10/11/25 at White Oak, Ice Cube Friday, 10/17/25 at Toyota Center, and John Legend on Sunday, 10/19/25 at Smart Centre.

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight at White Oak

Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 2d

DJO can get it. 😮‍💨🥵

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adrianap @lahondaj.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t say this enough - I fucking love Tubi.

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 5d

Rock shop as sung to the tune of Love Shack, 😬

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Leslie @lesliemullin.bsky.social · 5d

!!!!!

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 5d

An absolute fave! #spookyseason

Alan Cernobite @alancerny.bsky.social · 5d

Disney doing the right thing this Halloween season. Finally.

Chris Hickam @chrishickam.bsky.social · 5d

It looks like they've added it.

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 5d

Johnathan Pryce as Mr. Dark has to be one of my earliest girlhood crushes 😍 So mysterious 😬

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 5d

There's nothing like a poorly maintained gravelly sidewalk to put a literal spring in your step as you trip or stumble. No sidewalk means putting your life in the hands of already distracted drivers, hoping they see you walking. Feels like a super basic need to fulfill. Good read.

Shea Jordan Smith @sheajordansmith.bsky.social · 5d

Read here: www.forwardtimes.com/news/houston...

Houston’s Sidewalk Crisis: Building a City for Cars, Not People

We romanticize walkable cities when we travel—strolling through New York, D.C., Chicago, Paris—gushing about how alive the streets feel, how easy it is to get around, how vibrant and safe

www.forwardtimes.com

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 5d

🧡𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙎𝙬𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖 𝙗𝙖𝙜 𝙛𝙪𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙪𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢. 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙖𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢, 𝙨𝙤 𝙬𝙚’𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝓕𝓡𝓔𝓔 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙪𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙖𝙡𝙗𝙪𝙢. 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙢. 𝙒𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙜 𝙪𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 🧡

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 6d

100% correct. Once the media and talking heads started making us equate quality with how much money it made, we started thinking it must be good if it made so much money from people watching it. Theaters also don't let slow-money performers get their bearings before being pulled!

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 6d

BOOOOOO, boys, as we all know, can be dumb.

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 6d

We’re crewed up for The Fog this weekend! Easily in my top ten.

Rob Saucedo @robsaucedo.bsky.social · 7d

Feast your eyes on just a fraction of the films that will be playing at the River Oaks Theatre this October. See the full line-up at www.theriveroakstheatre.com. Well, most of the full line-up. At least three more movies still need to be put on sale...

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 6d

Honest inquiry, so if the government is “shut down,” does that mean the ICE Gestapo isn't harassing people right now?

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Matt McDaniel @themattmcd.bsky.social · 7d

You can't keep a good vampire down.

As part of Pluto TV's new Halloween Hits category, we've brought back the DARK SHADOWS single-series channel for the month of October. Watch it along with THE ADDAMS FAMILY, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, and other creepy favorites all month long: pluto.tv/us/live-tv/5...

Watch Dark Shadows: Live TV Channel for Free | Pluto TV

Much like the show’s lead character Barnabas Collins - a guilt-ridden vampire released from his coffin after nearly 200 years - gothic soap opera Dark Shadows retains an immortality that time cannot e...

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 6d

Did you read my journal, lol? Working next door did afford me plenty of nerds to ogle at when I would take a break there.

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 6d

I wondered which city was lucky to get you!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 6d

🙏 💚

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Cactus Music @cactusmusic.bsky.social · 6d

Going to the movie theater is my happy place, and most of my comfort films are horror films 😬 So tonight, 10/01/25, we kicked off our spooky season with Regal Cinemas’ #31ScreamsOnScreen with a viewing of Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse (1981). We’ll be hitting up River Oaks for their line-up too!

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Shea Jordan Smith @sheajordansmith.bsky.social · 7d

Donald Trump already gave us the longest shutdown in U.S. history—35 days straight from December 2018 to January 2019.

This is now the fourth government shutdown under a Trump Administration.

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Leslie @lesliemullin.bsky.social · 8d

El Gato Cafe has hit the 1000 adoptions milestone, truly incredible!!! 😻😻😻

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